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RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Robert P. Merges TITLE Justifying Intellectual Property CATEGORY law monograph NUMBER OF PAGES 400 7 line illustrations, 2 graphs, 8 tables PUBLICATION MONTH June AUTHOR BIO Robert Merges was born in Albany, New York in 1959. Educated at Carnegie-Mellon University, Yale Law School, and Columbia Law School he is now Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati Professor of Law and Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law. He is the co-author of a number of casebooks, most recently Patent Law and Policy published in a 4th edition in 2007 by LExis-Nexis Legal Publishing. BOOK DESCRIPTION Argues that intellectual property really is property, and that its protection is an essential responsibility of society and government. In Justifying Intellectual Property Robert Merges provides a vigorous and thorough defense of Intellectual Property, from John Locke and Immanuel Kant to creative professionals and patented drugs, that answers the many critics who contend that these rights are inefficient, unfair and theoretically incoherent, arguing instead that IP rights are based on a solid ethical foundation, and that, when subject to judicious equitable limits, these rights form an indispensible part of a well-functioning socio-economic system. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Philip Mirowski TITLE Science-Mart Privatizing American Science CATEGORY science monograph NUMBER OF PAGES 480 15 graphs, 15 tables PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Philip Mirowski was born in Jackson, Michigan in 1951. Educated at Michigan State and the University of Michigan he is now Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History of Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or co-author of ten books, most recently The Road to Mont Pélerin published by HUP in 2009. BOOK DESCRIPTION A critique of the post-WWII history of science funding and direction in America, when science changed from a largely government-funded public service to a commodity of the private sector. In this book, Mirowski argues that, since the 1980s, both university administrators and government policy experts around the world have assented to the proposition that science is best encouraged by subjecting it to market discipline. Almost three decades later, Mirowski believes the time has come to revisit both the intellectual arguments and empirical record. Since the U.S. was precocious in its embrace of the commercialization of science, much of the evidence in the book comes from America, with side glances to other countries. Cold War economic theories of the relation of the state to science are surveyed, and their loss of credibility since 1980 is described. These theories are juxtaposed with an economic history of science organization in 20th century America, which contradicts the commonplace notion that science has always been commercial. The book then turns to post-1980 developments in intellectual property and the ways in which legal tools have altered the research landscape moves on to examine the promise and disappointments of the biotech model of research. Venturing beyond historical narrative, the book explores the notion that advanced commercialization has degraded both the quantity and quality of post-1980 science. Asking why, if the payoff has been so paltry, have so many so avidly promoted further commercial initiatives Mirowski proposes that the program of the commercialization of knowledge is just one small part of a larger political project of the neoliberal transformation of the state and society. Small setbacks in science are deemed a valid price to pay for a larger political utopian vision, with economists frequently situated in the vanguard of the movement. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Dade W. Moeller TITLE Environmental Health, Fourth Edition CATEGORY science text book NUMBER OF PAGES 500 77 line illustrations, 87 tables PUBLICATION MONTH June AUTHOR BIO Dade Moeller was born in Florida in 1927. Educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology and North Carolina State University he is now retired from the board of Dade Moeller & Associates, and agency specializing in occupational and environmental health sciences. BOOK DESCRIPTION The latest edition of this important text book increases the depth of coverage based not only on review of almost 1,000 of the latest scientific papers but also the up-to-date knowledge and experience of “real world” practitioners to emphasize the importance of a “systems approach” and continue the effort, begun in third edition, to ensure readers understand differences among clinical medicine, public health, and environmental health. Environmental Health provides comprehensive coverage of the field including its challenges in terms of both local and global implications and importance to people in both the developing and developed nations, and the roles that individuals can play in helping to resolve the challenges. This new edition incorporates new developments in the field and increases the depth of coverage of the more important subject areas. Almost 1000 scientific papers have been reviewed and the salient features have been incorporated into the appropriate chapters. This edition has also been enriched with new tables and figures Care has been exercised to ensure that readers understand the limitations associated with techniques, such as epidemiology and risk assessment, that are routinely applied in evaluating the impacts of various environmental stresses. At the same time, the potential for advancing the evidence that can be derived, and the conclusions that can be reached, through applications of newer techniques, such as molecular toxicology and epidemiology, are clearly enunciated. The effort to ensure that readers understand the differences among clinical medicine, public health, and environmental health, introduced in the third edition, has been continued As in the past, an important goal of the book is to provide in depth coverage of each topic, based not only on a review of the latest publications in the field, but also the knowledge and experience of people who are deeply involved in the real world aspects of each subject. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. 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